Taking on Getty

Interesting news,i was talking to a photographer who has supplied work to the demotix agency,he said that some members had been contacted and asked to participate in providing images for a new news wire service that demotix was setting up with corbis. Could that be one of the reasons corbis acquired demotix.

Demotix - Corbis in Sheeps clothing

Demotix once promised photogs a minimum $50 per published photo. Then they dumped that promise, and never seem to pay over 25 pounds, and often as low as 5. They often don't track your where your images have been published, and take months to pay. We're told this is industry standard, but they do NOTHING to assure their photographers other than words. Your risk, their profit. Now they've started a wire, where YOU AGREE to NO TRACSKING AT ALL for the first 48 hours, and they pay you out of a pool, which is paying some people under one pound per month. Meanwhile, you upload your work to Demotix, and Corbis takes a piece of it, and doesnt notify you, and if they sell it, maybe you get paid, maybe you dont. There's no way to know. The new sheister at the helm came online, and got so many questions about people getting pad that he had to run off like a scared little cat. I've seen disconnects between boss and employee before but Demotix thinks its ok for you to work for them for nothing. Its beyond ridiculous. Boycott them and Corbis.